Sweden
The Kommunal municipal union notes that the latest pay statistics show women earning some SEK 9000 (€1000) less than men, a pay gap of 14.3% on average. The union has joined with other trade unions, political groups and women’s lobbying organisations to argue that this year on international women’s day, women workers should all go home early. Earning 14.3% less than men for a normal 8-5 working day, means that women should leave work at 15.51.
Read more at > Kommunal (SV)
(4 June 2013) The trade unions in GdFsuez and its management reached a [comprehensive agreement->art8767] on how to promote equality in the company on June 2012. The agreement foresaw the
Services union VIDA is supporting the ÖGB trade union confederation’s campaigning around equal pay and the Equal Pay Day planned for 29 September. The date was chosen to correspond to the 25.6% gender pay gap in Austria, represented by the idea that if men and women both work full-time for a year the pay gap means that on average women are unpaid for the final three months of the year. The union stresses that equal pay for work of equal value is not just a question of fairness but would also mean an important boost to the economy. [Read more at > VIDA (DE)->http://www.vida.at/servlet
